Hirsh also mentions, "other items in the issue include...D. West's review of fan

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art. Noting that art in fanzines is an area which has avoided being a

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matter of discussion, D's article is intended as a primer, as the spark

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plug in an attempt to get some discussion going."

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If that was indeed his goal it worked, because in the Summer 2005 issue of [[Challenger]], Taral Wayne, in his article "I, Fanartist", contends, "A few years ago D. West wrote a comprehensive and generally intelligent overview of fan artists for a fanzine called ''Lagoon'', published by Simon Ounsley. There was a sample illo for every artist D. covered. For a very good reason, I was one of the few readers who clued in that the samples were fake, and that D. had drawn them all. Uniformly they were very good, and it took a careful eye to see that the hand that had rendered them was not as advertised. Except for one that is. D. used expressions like "twee", and "the technical quality of the artwork is not so outstanding…" in delivering his judgement. When he came to pastiching my work, however, it was frankly crap. He couldn't do it."

Revision as of 15:32, 16 January 2013

Irwin Hirsh writes in The Australian Science Fiction Bullsheet #34 (1994); "Simon Ounsley's "Welcome to the Pleasure Dome" is probably the
best fanzine article l've read recently. Published in Simon's LAGOON 6
the article is part con report, part fiction, and skilfully marries
effective descriptions of (some of) Simon's encounters at a Novacon
with commentary on the nature of those descriptions."

Hirsh also mentions, "other items in the issue include...D. West's review of fan
art. Noting that art in fanzines is an area which has avoided being a
matter of discussion, D's article is intended as a primer, as the spark
plug in an attempt to get some discussion going."

If that was indeed his goal it worked, because in the Summer 2005 issue of Challenger, Taral Wayne, in his article "I, Fanartist", contends, "A few years ago D. West wrote a comprehensive and generally intelligent overview of fan artists for a fanzine called Lagoon, published by Simon Ounsley. There was a sample illo for every artist D. covered. For a very good reason, I was one of the few readers who clued in that the samples were fake, and that D. had drawn them all. Uniformly they were very good, and it took a careful eye to see that the hand that had rendered them was not as advertised. Except for one that is. D. used expressions like "twee", and "the technical quality of the artwork is not so outstanding…" in delivering his judgement. When he came to pastiching my work, however, it was frankly crap. He couldn't do it."